The Sunday Times ran an eye-opening special investigation into “energy medicine” machines whose proponents claim they can harness electromagnetic waves to diagnose and cure a host of maladies — an industry that it concludes is hawking “the 21st-century version of snake oil.”
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Daylight-saving time is about to end for another year. That means it’s a good time to re-examine the question of whether it actually does much good (for anyone except Halloween candy makers, that is).
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We hear a lot of identity theft nowadays, but criminals still create all-new identities from scratch, too. And, according to a fascinating Wall Street Journal story, they can exploit a loophole in the credit-reporting system to help them make up people that will pass financial background checks.
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